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Question: What do you know about the existence of bacteriological detachments on the
territory of Manchuria?

Answer: I well know that two such detachments existed in the Kwantung Army, the first of
which was named Detachment 731 and the second, Detachment 100.

Question: To what degree was Detachment 731, headed by Lieutenant General Ishii,
subordinated to the Kwantung Army Headquarters?

Answer: Detachment 731, headed by Lieutenant Genera^ Ishii, was a detachment directly
subordinate to the Command' er of the Kwantung Army, at first Umezu, and then Yamada,
and the detachment conducted all its work under the direct guidance of the Kwantung Army
Headquarters.

Question: How did guidance of the activity of this detachment by the Commander-in-
Chief, General Yamada Otozoo, and the Kwantung Army Headquarters express itself?

Answer: The Commander-in-Chief guided the activity of Detachment 731 through
Lieutenant General Kajitsuka, Chief of the Medical Administration of the Kwantung Army,
and hence the Kwantung Army Headquarters bore prime responsibility for this detachment's
activity.

Question: In what did the preparation carried out by Detachment 731 for bacteriological
warfare against the U.S.S.R. express itself?

Answer: The preparation of bacteriological means of warfare expressed itself in the fact
that Detachment 731 studied the employment of the germs of plague, cholera, typhoid and
other infectious diseases; for this purpose the detachment had special institutions where
experiments were conducted and germs were cultivated.

Alongside this, Detachment 731 had branches in Mutankiang, Hailar, Sunyu and loan,
which also engaged in the breeding and testing of germs.

Question: What relation did you, as Chief of the Strategical Division and Deputy Chief of
Staff of the Kwantung Army, have to Detachment 731?

Answer: My relation to Detachment 731 consisted in the preparation of passes to visit the
detachment's territory for persons permitted to visit it. Permission to visit the detachment was
granted personally by Commander Yamada. In immediate charge of issuing passes to
Detachment 731 was Deputy Chief of the Strategical Division, which I headed, Prince
Takeda, otherwise known as Lieutenant Colonel Miyata. The persons who visited the
detachment returned the passes to Prince Takeda.

Question: To whom did the chiefs of the medical and veterinary administrations of the
Kwantung Army report on the most important phases of their work?

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